Haven`t played for a while due to some hardware related problems, but I used to do a lot of ack running during my gametime. Not so much during the beginning but after a while I could pretty much predict when I was about to get shot down and then it was nose down, stick stir and ack. Even if I told myself at the start of a flight that this is going to be a fight to the death and no running it all went out the door as soon as I felt at a disadvantage. It feels bad when I get shot down, it feels evil good when ack, wirble etc clears my 6, I feel neutral when someone runs away from me (usually I`m not going to chase), sometimes I get increasingly p****d when someone starts chasing me and just won`t give up. Ack running has paid off countless of times because of a fight that followed soon after that. There is only one kind of losing in this game for me and that is getting shot down. Someone telling me that I lost because I ran to the ack is like me telling someone "congratulations you`re winner" after running to the ack, in other words doesn`t feel like it.